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On Tuesday 8 April at 10am Tim Burton's trial at Birmingham Magistrates' Court will settle the question of whether the defendant, by calling Muslim Fiyaz Mujhal "a mendacious grievance-mongering taqiyya-artist" on Twitter, committed racially aggravated harassment, as he is accused of having done by the West Midlands Police.

Tim is the Radio Officer of Liberty GB, a British newly-formed conservative and patriotic party.

Burton's trial is very worrying for anyone who holds dear freedom of speech and other basic civil liberties. One of the worrisome aspects is the conflating of 'religion' with 'race'. Islam is clearly not a race and Muslims belong to all races, including white European. Furthermore, the Crown Prosecution Service considers those two charges (racially- and religiously-aggravated crimes) as distinct ones.

But, despite officially paying lip service to this distinction, in Tim Burton's case the CPS is trying to combine and confuse the two because it does not have sufficient grounds to get a conviction on the 'religiously aggravated' charge â€“ which requires stronger evidence â€“, so decides to prosecute using the easier 'racially aggravated' one.

As the CPS's own website says, "So it will be more difficult to prosecute for inciting religious as opposed to racial hatred".

Since there are no blasphemy laws in the UK and criticism of any religion, including Islam, is theoretically tolerated, only two alternatives are left to British Muslims who want to protect Islam from the expression of the uncomfortable truths of its supremacist and violent nature. One is to invoke the introduction of a blasphemy law; the other, subtler and more effective, is to turn existing anti-racist, 'hate crime' laws into a sharia-style blasphemy law.

Our intention is twofold. Firstly, to show to the British and Western public what taqiyya â€“ deception for the good of Islam â€“ is and, given the special position in the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims of this divine permission to lie, to show the whole nature of Islam in relation to us through it. For this reason, Islam scholar Professor Hans Jansen is scheduled to appear at the trial and give evidence as expert witness on taqiyya. We've christened this a 'taqiyya trial'.

Secondly, to defend free speech and stop the effective use of anti-racist legislation as blasphemy laws.